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Howard R. Reiter
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Howard Roland Bosey Reiter was an All-American football player, coach and athletic director. He was selected for the 1899 College Football All-America Team and played football as a player coach for the Philadelphia Athletics of the first National Football League in 1902. He was the football coach at Wesleyan University from 1903 to 1909. Reiter has been credited by some with the development of the spiral forward pass. Reiter was raised in Philadelphia, the son of Benjamin O. Reiter, Reiter enrolled at Princeton University where he played football and baseball and was selected as a halfback on the 1899 College Football All-America Team. Upon completing his coursework at Princeton, Reiter attended the Princeton Theological Seminary for three years. Despite the ruling, rumors spread that Reiter continued to play for Princeton in 1900 under an assumed name, in September 1902, while still a seminary student, Reiter signed up to play professional football for Connie Macks Philadelphia Athletics of the 1902 version of the National Football League. Reiter was hired not only as a player but also as coach of the Athletics, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Reiters signing as follows, H. R. He will not let the engagement interfere with his course in the seminary, Reiter was the starting left halfback on the 1902 Athletics team until he broke his right leg near his hip while playing in a game against Waterton. In July 1903, after completing three years of studies, The New York Times reported that he passed a brilliant examination at the Presbytery meeting and was granted a license as a minister. He moved to Ocean Park, New Jersey in the summer of 1903, working as a lifeguard during the week, however, as football season approached, Reiter accepted a position as football coach at Wesleyan University. In 1905, Reiter added the title of director at Wesleyan. Reiter was a popular and energetic coach, in 1906, The Washington Post published a feature article about Reiters techniques for training Wesleyan athletes, Reiter is unusual. Reiters chapel talks to the students are as much a feature of his work as the words of advice to the men on the field. It is not hard to see why Wesleyan has moved up seven notches in physical well being since he took hold of things, in August 1910, Reiter was hired away from Wesleyan by Lehigh University. Reiter coached the Lehigh football team from 1910–1911, with a record at Lehigh of 7-11-2, Reiter remained at Lehigh for many years as the head of the Department of Physical Education and a member of its Athletic Control Board. Reiter also garnered publicity in 1902 when he saved a man off the Ocean Park Pier in New Jersey. On seeing the man go under the water, Reiter dove into the water to bring the man to the surface

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1905 Stanford football team
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The 1905 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1905 college football season. In head coach James F. Lanagans third season, Stanford went undefeated, the team played their home games at Stanford Field in Stanford, California. The 1905 season marked the first meeting between Stanford and USC, consequently, Stanford is USCs oldest existing rival. The Big Game between Stanford and Cal on November 11,1905, was the first played at Stanford Field, following the 1905 season, Stanford, responding like other American universities to concerns about the violence in football, dropped football in favor of rugby. Despite having no knowledge of the sport, Lanagan was retained as the coach, spending time in Vancouver, British Columbia, to study the sport. He also served as Stanfords baseball coach from 1906 to 1907, Stanford would not play varsity football again until the 1919 season

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1905 VPI football team
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The 1905 VPI football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1905 college football season. Led by first year head coach Sally Miles, the team went 9–1, the team had the most wins in a Virginia Tech season for many years to come, and defeated rival Virginia for the first time. Tech outscored its opponents 305 to 24, hunter Carpenter scored 82 of those points. The team reported for practice on September 1, never in the history of the school have prospects for a winning team been so bright. Source, HokieSports. com,1905 Virginia Tech football schedule The season opened with an 86–0 defeat of Roanoke College, in the second week of play, VPI beat Cumberland 12–0. The upset of the week was VPIs 16–6 win over Army, Carpenter was the star of the game, and made a kick from placement. VPIs starting lineup was, Webber, Willson, Diffendal, Stiles, Strickling, Hines, Lewis, Nutter, Treadwell, Carpenter, VPI had no trouble in beating Gallaudet 56–0. The starting lineup was Webber, Varner, Diffendal, Stiles, Stickling, Hynes, Lewis, Harris, Nutter, Carpenter, during the second half VPI scored almost at will. Hunter Carpenter had returned to VPI in 1905 for a last shot at beating Virginia in his year of college football. Going into the game, UVA was 8–0 against VPI by a score of 170–5. The Cavalier Daily ran a story outlining Carpenters motives and move from VPI to UNC, Virginia accused Carpenter of being a professional player, as he had played college football already for nearly a decade. Carpenter signed an affidavit that he had not received payment to play against UVA, Virginia fumbled at midfield, and as a result Carpenter eventually got away for a 30-yard gain around left end. Virginia held VPI on downs at the 3-yard line, Virginias punt had to go high and short to avoid hitting the goal post. Carpenter called a catch in order for a free kick, but was tackled anyway. On third down, Murray Harlan skirted end for a touchdown, the second half was even more hotly contested than the first. Carpenter finally got off a punt, down to Virginias 5-yard line. VPI blocked Virginias ensuing punt, and on third down Carpenter dashed through left tackle for the final score. Carpenter was later ejected for throwing the ball at the face of a Virginia defender, Carpenter left immediately after the game and moved to Middleton, New York, never to return to the Commonwealth

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1905 Oklahoma Sooners football team
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The 1905 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1905 college football season. In their first year head coach Bennie Owen, the Sooners compiled a 7–2 record. This was first year that the Sooners defeated the Texas Longhorns